8 EARLY LIFE. 



have been able to discover, were ever remarkable for 

 anything. Many, no doubt, were fighters, but even 

 in that career of doubtful usefulness were rather pru- 

 dent than daring. Thus Udardus, who had the cus- 

 tody of Appleby Castle, instead of keeping it for his 

 employer, Henry II., allowed William the Lion of 

 Scotland to take it, and appears even to have gone over 

 to the enemy. This, indeed, is incontestably proved 

 by the Pipe Koll, 22 Henry II., an official copy of 

 which, stamped with the seal of the Public Eecord 

 Office, is now before me, and is in these words : " Ite 

 de Placitis eorundem in Westmarieland. Vdardus cle 

 Broham redd. comp. de q or t a xx. m. quia fuit cu ini- 

 micis Peg." After he had paid his fine, as appears by 

 a record of a subsequent date, he turned crusader ; 

 but instead of fighting and dying for the Holy Sepul- 

 chre, he returned to Brougham, and there died quietly 

 in his bed. 



His son and successor, Gilbert de Broham, paid fifty 

 marks to King John, " ut remaneat, ne transfretet, 

 termin' ad passag, Dm Peg.," as appears in the Oblata 

 Poll of the second year of the reign of King John, 

 preserved in the Tower of London ; so, instead of going 

 to fight with the King's army in Normandy, he paid 

 this fine that he might be allowed to stay at home. 

 He afterwards got into hot water with King John, 

 who mulcted him of half of the diminished estate he 

 had inherited from Uclard, and gave it to his creature 

 Veteriporit, from whom it passed to the Cliffords, and 

 from them to the Tuftons. Nor do I find we improved 



